Schools asked to provide free emergency contraception to teenagers

Schools asked to provide free emergency contraception to teenagersSchools have been asked to deliver free morning-after pills and condoms to teen young ladies, including those under the period of consent, to cut unwanted pregnancies.

New direction from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said that under-25s ought to have the ability to get to crisis contraception all the more promptly, including pills and the IUD (intrauterine gadget, or curl).

Free condoms - including female condoms - ought to likewise be 'promptly open' for youthful men and ladies at spots, for example, 'schools, universities and youth clubs'.

The new direction is pointed at cutting the high amounts of unwanted teen pregnancies crosswise over England.

Under the arrangements, Nice said suitably qualified medical caretakers, including school attendants, and drug specialists ought to be given the capability to apportion free crisis preventative pills as per patient group directions (PGDs).

PGDs permit health specialists to supply a medication straightforwardly to a patient without the need for a remedy.

Nice likewise recharged its 2010 call for youngsters to be given crisis contraception to keep at home on the off chance that they require it. Also, it said adolescent ladies must be recounted spots they can get free, private pregnancy tests with same-day results.